Golbarg Bashi

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Golbarg Bashi (Persian: گلبرگ باشی‎ ) is a Swedish feminist academic and human rights activist of Iranian origin. She was born in Ahvaz, Iran, raised in Sweden and educated in the British Russell Group universities of Manchester and Bristol.

She is a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York where her husband, the noted scholar of Iran and post-colonial theorist, Hamid Dabashi is also based.

Bashi has tackled areas of academic inquiry that include human rights, prevention of torture, Black and Third-world feminisms, postcolonial theory, Iranian women's studies, and the politics of media representation of gender, race and ethics.

She has interviewed the once heir apparent to the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri in the Shi'i heartland city of Qom [1], and is also known for her criticism of "secular fundamentalist" feminists of Iranian origin in Diaspora for their siding with racist policies against Muslims in Europe and North America [2], [3] and for their hatred and counter-offensives against the positive developments of the women's movement inside Iran [4].

Bashi has been a member of the Green Party of Sweden where she was elected in 2002 as an executive member of the party's Women's Committee [5]. She was also selected as a Green candidate in the Swedish municipal elections for the city of Kramfors in 2002 [6].

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